Cars 2 has the body of burnished Pixar purdiness, a chassis built of the bleached bones of Geoffrey the Giraffe, and an engine kissed by the Cylon god. In Cars 2, God isn't the cosmic clockmaker; he's the cosmic carburetor. More »

In the pantheon of naturist astro-Dracula cinema, very few films outclass Lifeforce. Replete with astronauts behaving like they never graduated middle school and cosmic Nosferatus forgetting their pants, Lifeforce appeals to the galactic Van Helsing in all of us. More »

Animator John Banana has created this charming short animation as an homage to Dave Stevens' jetpack-wielding hero. It's cute stuff, and the only thing it's missing is a CG John Locke as Howard Hughes. More »

Artist Fabian Gonzalez — who previously depicted robots, superheroes, and supervillains as minimalist rectangles — has now transformed 50 superheroes into global flags. Can you guess them all? I hear that Punisheristan is really balmy this time of year. More »

It took 50,000 interlocking bricks, but sculptor Kevin J. Walter was able to recreate Sauron's fortress of Barad-dûr out of LEGOs, presumably to keep out some wee DUPLO Hobbits. You can see more photos at Kevin's Flickr page. More »

We don't know exactly why they're forlorn (or why we can't go back to the moon), but the most recent trailer for the found-footage lunar horror flick Apollo 18 certainly does feature some of NASA's finest in crappy moods. More »

Mayflies spend a year awaiting their birth, and then most die after living just one day. Their sole purpose is to pass on their genes, and most never even bother eating...and that's been the status quo for 100 million years. More »

Imagine a world in which professional wrestling dynasties carry the same weight as royal families. Such is the standard operating procedure of Metalocalypse co-creator Tommy Blacha's new Adult Swim cartoon Mongo Wrestling Alliance. More »

One of the biggest evolutionary hurdles for life on Earth was the jump from single-celled to multi-cellular organisms...or at least, that's what we thought. Scientists set out to replicate this evolutionary leap in laboratory conditions. It took them two months. More »

New Jim Lee artwork of DC's revamped Justice League appeared yesterday on superhero cup manufacturer Toon Tumblers' Facebook page. The illustration (which was made for a Comic-Con exclusive cup) may give readers new clues about the team's line-up. More »

According to professional paranoid yelling man Alex Jones, the government's dosing us with DMT because the clockwork elves are conspiring with Satan and the Large Hadron Collider. Given that io9 is staffed entirely by clockwork elves, he's not off-base. More »